I’m CalMatters investigative editor Andrew Donohue, and I’m subbing for Lynn today. The state Employment Development ...

California's unemployment bureaucracy has managed to do something that still shocks even after years of scandal: spend ...

Surge in unemployment claims prompts Employment Development Department to buy thousands of cell phones, but they weren’t used, audit finds.

The California State Auditor revealed that the agency, better known as EDD, wasted more than $4.6 million on monthly service ...

California's unemployment department bought more cellphones than it needed during the COVID pandemic and kept paying for ...

According to a report by the California State Auditor, reviewers examined 54 months of billing and found EDD paid about $4.62 ...

The Employment Development Department (EDD) announced on Thursday that California’s September 2025 labor market data will be ...

The largest amount of state funding the auditor found spent improperly was $4.6 million by the Employment Development ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- As the pandemic swept the nation, collapsed the economy and threw millions out of their jobs, it was time for the California Employment Development Department to step up and ...

"Because of EDD's failures, our constituents are depleting their life savings, going into extreme debt, having trouble paying rent and putting food on the table," said Assemblyman David Chiu, D-San ...

The pandemic stress tested all sorts of boundaries for state government, not the least of which were the limits of its critical benefits systems, like those offered through the California Employment ...

A Visalia family is facing an unimaginable reality after a family member is diagnosed terminally ill.A husband and father has ...